By controlling nutrient cycling and biomass production at the base of the food web,
interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria represent a fundamental ecological …

Intuitively, it may seem that from the perspective of an individual bacterium the ocean is a
vast, dilute, and largely homogeneous environment. Microbial oceanographers have …

The ability of marine bacteria to direct their movement in response to chemical gradients
influences inter-species interactions, nutrient turnover, and ecosystem productivity. While …

Recently developed techniques for estimating bacterial biom! lSS and productivity indicate
that bacterial biomass In the sea Is related to phytoplankton ('Oncentration and that bacteria …

Communities of microscopic plant life, or phytoplankton, dominate the Earth's aquatic
ecosystems. This important new book by Colin Reynolds covers the adaptations, physiology …

Heterotrophic bacteria are thought to be important components of aquatic ecosystems in
several ways. These bacteria remineralize organic materials and convert some organic …

The full suite of carbon exchanges among the 36 most important components of the
Chesapeake Bay mesohaline ecosystem is estimated to examine the seasonal trends in …

Since the first edition of Nitrogen in the Environment published in 1983, it has been
recognized as the standard in the field. In the time since the book first appeared, there has …

There has been an explosion of research on marine microbial foodweb processes in the
past decade. Today it is widely accepted that about 50% of the primary production in marine …

Mineral nutrient limitation seems to stimulate phytoplankton excretion of extracellular
organic carbon (EOC). Bacterial growth on EOC requires additional uptake of mineral …